buttons VS obsidian-dataview

The Buttons plugin might work for you (except for maybe the running-code-on-startup thing): https://github.com/shabegom/buttons

Here is the link to the plugin: GitHub - shabegom/buttons: Buttons in Obsidian

You will need Templater plugin (I think) and Buttons plugin (https://github.com/shabegom/buttons)

button (mobile)

While there is a plugin to make buttons, but I couldn't get it to work how I wanted. They have a replace line function, but it's not relative, and I'm unsure if the section you want to modify moves around from writing above it. This means that it's quite hard for me to give you a good solution for clickable items so instead I've got a different solution. It also might scale better for you if you ever consider using Dataview tables to show your journal entries.

Well, I will do my best and try to describe as much as possible. - At the top of the sidebar is an iframe widget for listening to internet radio. I pasted its code into a new note and dragged the note there. - Below that is the file navigation panel and I used this CSS snippet, created by Lithou to colour my folders and I adjusted this later to suit my needs. - At the top left of my dashboard is a CSS ribbon with the text "Home" on it. - Next to the ribbon are custom buttons, created thanks to the Buttons plugin. I have moved them up there in CSS, using the "position: absolute;" declaration and adjusting the position by trial and error, using the "top" and "right" properties. Among them are three buttons called "Flash". These are shortcuts to my notes, where I create a list of words to study, and I repeat them later using the Spaced Repetition plugin. - Below the ribbon is a "ᗐ Footer" link that scrolls the dashboard to the bottom. I also have one at the bottom that scrolls it to the "ᗑ Top". - Below that is a list of my tasks for today, managed by the Tasks plugin. - Next to it is an iframe widget with a digital clock. - And below is a link to a list of my weekly meals, generated by the Dataview plugin.

Are there any CSS wizards out there able to help me with this? I'm fairly good with coding/scripting and whatnot, but I've never done CSS before. I'm using the buttons plugin (https://github.com/shabegom/buttons), and I'd like to apply this glassmorphism CSS snippet to my buttons (generated from https://hype4.academy/tools/glassmorphism-generator) background: rgba( 157, 60, 234, 0.4 ); box-shadow: 0 8px 32px 0 rgba( 31, 38, 135, 0.37 ); backdrop-filter: blur( 15.5px ); -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur( 15.5px ); border-radius: 10px;

In terms of making elements which look good quickly getting great plugins and learning them in and out is the move. For me advanced tables is a must have. I can create table about as quickly as I can filling out excel sheets. Data view is another great one as well as banners and buttons. There is also a notions like tables which is amazing in its functionality but still pretty early in development.

I'm able to create buttons using the "buttons" plugin, and I can use that to call a template. So far, so good.

At the end of the day, I use Dataview, a plugin for Obsidian, which allows me to make queries to my notes similar to SQL to visualize the collected information:

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing

Since at least 2012 I've also been using a text file format from http://todotxt.org/ and more recently I wrote a program that takes a crontab-like list to pre-generate entries on a daily, by-day-name (every Sunday for example), and I also pull in a list of holidays from gov.uk, so they are also populated.

[^1]: (https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview)

> Joplin is using md to.

The way it's handled can make the difference in control.

> by separating that in their DB, it's a big NO for me since it's a closed silo.

Joplin is using a popular open database with a healthy community and good tooling. It's as open as markdown. Maybe not for you, when you lack the knowledge, but markdown is similar closed for anyone not understanding filesystems and editors.

> This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me

Good for you, but that is very low level in terms of data-handling. Dataview is really just an elaborated search, there is no good level of interaction. Datacore, the next project of the Dataview is supposed to bring this, but it's not even usable yet AFAIK. Coincidental, the Obsidian-devs are also working on that front, but nothing is finished yet.

> https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git and b) easy to fix since it's a text file. Gosh!

That's useless when the app itself is not working. And even worse if you are not realizing the errors early.

> Aha. I don't think so. Which authority says that?

My own experience. I've tested enough plugins over the years to know their dark corners.

> And even if It's like that, my markdown files would survive everything

The thing is, technically you are not even having proper markdown, but a fork with some extensions of Obsidian. So some features of your parts might break when switching away from Obsidian. And the reason for all this is also because markdown is lacking definitions for what obsidian-people are doing with it. Coincidentally, this seems also one of the reasons why Joplin is using a database.

> And gosh, this is a good thing!

Not if they all suck.

> Installing multiple task plugins shows that something is "broke" on the user side.

Sure, because the plugins are lacking features, its the users fault... Maybe some users have just very different levels of requirements from you.

Refer: Obsidian Search, How I Use Embedded Queries, Dataview, Excalibrain

Ref: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/544 (Bearbeitet)

For using it, having SQL or JavaScript knowledge is useful, but you can probably figure it out without that knowledge. The Github page has a lot of examples that you can cannabalize for simple things without really getting too deep into it.

Check it here.

I think this could be helpful https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/1086

Have you heard of Obsidian? It's a note-taking app build on locally stored markdown files with bidirectional linking and a great ecosystem of third party plugins. One of the most popular plugins is https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview which lets you treat your notes as databases and query them to form tables. The creator has been working on its successor, Datacore https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore for a while - Datacore might come close to what you're looking for, its goals include WYSIWYG views and live editing inside tables.